Little girl thinks this bride is the princess from her favorite book, and it's adorable

[haele]

56. C'mon, you old grump!

My grand-daughters (5 and 2) - or rather my 5 year old grand-daughter - bring me books she finds in the grown-up bookcases that thinks look interesting and wants me to read her a story.

Sometimes, it's a history book, and sometimes it's a technical manual - and once a Calculus 1 primer. Those are typically very short stories...
The artist collection books are best.
I recently read to them my Dover Classics copy "The Circus of Dr. Lao" with Artzybascheff drawings...because Amelia saw it and liked the drawings. She's attracted to Art Deco designs right now.
I didn't actually "read" the book, the vignettes to them...way too adult, cynical and dark - and dated.
I made up light stories from the plates and marginal pictures and tried to ensure the picture captions match the story, because Amelia can at least read on a second grade level...
A bit exhausting - and a lot of pages skipped, and now Amelia wants me to "read" it again, so I have to try and remember the stories I spun. And yes, I put a couple princesses in...

Sort of like my Jacqueline in the Beanstalk bed-time story with the weird clothes of Crazy Wizard Uncle Gary, the Moon Queen, and three talking animals that Jacky meets on the way up to the giants - who fart a lot in my stories. I'm constantly being corrected if I don't tell it right.

I would imagine that if the little girl loved the picture in the front of the book, her mom made up a story about a princess to go with it, just as I do with my grandkids.

Haele